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Booth, Amy E.; Shavlik, Margaret; Haden, Catherine A. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
To explore the potential contribution of parents' causal talk to preschooler's emerging scientific literacy and related interests, we observed 153 parent-child dyads playing together in a museum and in the lab. As in previous work, the frequency with which parents referenced causal information in their speech predicted the strength of their…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Scientific Literacy, Child Development, Cognitive Development
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Jönsson, Anders – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
The aim of this study is to investigate the influence of content knowledge on students' socio-scientific argumentation in the Swedish National Assessment in biology, chemistry and physics for 12-year-olds. In Sweden, the assessment of socio-scientific argumentation has been a major part of the National Assessment during three consecutive years and…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Persuasive Discourse, Correlation, Science Instruction
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Verkade, Heather; Bryson-Richardson, Robert J. – Journal of Peer Learning, 2013
Undergraduate students benefit from observation of each other's oral presentations through both exposure to content and observation of presentation style. In order to increase the engagement and reflection of final year students in an oral presentation task, a peer assessment component was introduced using a rubric that emphasised scientific…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Observational Learning, Peer Evaluation, Scoring Rubrics